Serpent Groups
Several full time groups which use
the
Serpent and appear on recordings, radio, television and motion pictures.

London Serpent Trio
The original Serpent ensemble in the 20th century. Founded by Serpent
gurus Christopher Monk, Alan Lumsden and Andrew van der Beek, they have
toured widely giving concerts, have produced recordings, and appear on
radio and television. Currently the trio consists of Phil Humphries,
Clifford
Bevan and Stephen Wick.

La Fenice
This French ensemble frequently uses the Serpent, along with other
ancient wind instruments such as sackbut and cornett. They perform
primarily
serious renaissance music. Michel Godard, Serpent

The Mellstock Band
An English group which has produced recordings and appeared on film,
television and radio. They specialize in music following the West
Gallery
tradition and related forms. Phil Humphries, Serpent

Octophoros
This European orchestra has recorded examples of Janissary and Harmonie
music plus orchestral music using Serpent. Andrew van der Beek, Serpent

Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
This largely English orchestra has done CD and video recordings of
several historically authentic performances of music by Berlioz.

The Chestnut Brass Company
The only full time brass quintet which routinely performs on not only
modern brass instruments, but also the entire spectrum of their
historical
predecessors. Several recordings are available on CD, however many of
these
are temporarily out of print due a change in ownership of the record
company.
Jay Krush, Serpent & ophicleide. Sony Classical has re-released
certain
recordings under different names.

Boston Symphony & Boston Pops Orchestras
These major orchestras, under the direction of Seiji Ozawa and John
Williams, respectively, have embraced the Serpent for music that
originally
called for it, as well as for modern compositions. Douglas Yeo, Serpent

Passion des Cuivres (pronouncedpass-ee-ohn deh queev)
German brass quintet from Berlin, playing 19th century brass
instrument, with an ophicleide in the position usually taken by a tuba.
Erhard Schwartz, ophicleide